MARAM & Information Sharing Scheme Training

WIFVC MARAM Collaborative Practice Module Training

This important training focuses on the collaborative practice and foundational aspects of Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) that enable collaboration for professionals responding to family violence across the western metropolitan region.

The training sessions will explore how to contribute to risk assessment and collaborate for ongoing risk management through respectful and sensitive engagement with victim survivors, information sharing, referral and secondary consultations.

This training is available to all professionals who respond to family violence in the western metropolitan region. Register your interest at the links below. Please note training is now being offered in both online and in-person formats!

“Incredibly useful to have real examples of collaboration in practice”

“The training gave me a deeper understanding of intersectionality and structural barriers to enhancing best practice”

Overview of MARAM training

  • Safe and Equal Family Violence Foundations will provide you with foundational knowledge about preventing and responding to family violence and violence against women. Find out more.

    Victorian Government Family Violence eLearn Module is for practitioners who may have limited family violence knowledge, or might be new to working with people who have experienced family violence. Register here.

  • Safe and Equal's MARAM Leading Alignment is for leaders, directors and CEO’s from organisations and agencies prescribed under MARAM. This 1-day training session will help managers lead and embed MARAM within their organisation. Register here.

    MARAM Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Management (Newer Family Violence Specialists) is for new family violence specialists working in a specialist capacity across the integrated services system and/or those who have not previously completed specialist CRAF training. This 2-day training focuses on working with victim survivors. Register here.

  • WIFVC MARAM Collaborative Practice Training is for all professionals who respond to family violence. This training focuses on collaborative practice and foundations of MARAM that enable collaboration. Register here.

    Safe and Equal's MARAM Brief and Intermediate eLearn is suitable for professionals whose purpose of intervention is linked to family violence but not directly focused on family violence. Register here.

    Safe and Equal's MARAM Risk Identification and Screening is suitable for all professionals who may identify family violence is occurring and who engage with people in a one-off‚ episodic or ongoing service environment and are in a position to identify or screen for family violence. Register here.

    DFFH & DH funded workforces - for professionals in Antenatal Services, Care Services and Maternal and Child Health who have roles that align with the Screening and Identification level of MARAM. Find out more.

    Victorian Government'sElder Abuse eLearn is aligned to Risk Identification and Screening. Register here.

    Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) is for practitioners working with victim survivors in hospital settings. Click here for more information.

    Accredited Training: The Department of Education and Training, in partnership with Family Safety Victoria’s Centre for Workforce Excellence, have developed the ‘Identifying and Responding to Family Violence Risk’ (221510VIC) online course. The course will be delivered by TAFE’s, Registered Training Organisations and dual sector universities as a single unit course. The training is available to all workforces, both in service and through pre-service qualifications and will be provided free of charge. Click here for more information about how to enrol.

  • Identification - Professionals who may come in contact with family violence victim survivors or adults using family violence while providing universal services.

    Intermediate - Professionals who may have contact with people experiencing or using family violence in their work, however responding to family violence is not their core role or function.

    Comprehensive - Professionals whose core role is to respond to people experiencing or using family violence. 

  • Tools currently under development.

Which MARAM training is right for you?

Family Violence Foundations Training

Information Sharing Schemes and Introduction to MARAM Online Learning Courses

Preventing and responding to family violence is the collective responsibility of a wide variety of professionals. Safe and Equal’s Family Violence Foundations is a key starting point for everyone who has a role to play. This course provides a common starting point upon which professionals may seek to develop the skills needed to undertake their role in family violence prevention and response. Safe and Equal’s course is free, and consists of 16 self-paced modules spread across four streams. On average, it takes 20 minutes to complete each module. Click here to find out more.

Additional help in selecting the right Information Sharing Scheme training for you is available here.